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Sep 23, 2007

Vacation Sketches 3/Drakes Bay

I really like the movie the Fog, the original, and no it isn't verygood except it has some great scenes done in Drakes Bay north ofSan Francisco. I went there with my sister one day for no good reasonexcept we were near the golden gate bridge. She's cool so she justwent along with my weird ocean obsession. It is like this weirdremote bay/park/lost part of the coast with no real houses(exceptthose seen in the Fog), a crazy lighthouse, and the windiest part ofthe west coast. It is like another state altogether. I stared at theocean for a really long time looking for whales or even moreridiculous, great white sharks, which would be a one in a thousandchance to see(the sharks, not the whales, I was in the wrong time ofyear for the whales). Long miles of remote beach. You go there andyou just know that despite new theories to the contrary, Francis Drakehad to have landed there. It is really a sight to see. Later on thissummer I flew over San Francisco and saw that it was so ridiculouslyclose to the bay. It was like the distance to Oakland. Just theplane turning made us go over the bay bridge, over SF, then over thegolden gate, and really near Drakes Bay(it's basically the roads anduneven terrain that make it like two hours to get to). Recommended ifyou like nature and are obsessed with history and the ocean, and theremote parts of california.

There are a lot of historical places that people ignore if they don'tknow otherwise. I remember reading accounts of the Mussle SloughMassacre that took place at the turn of the century in the middle ofCalifornia. Shoot outs involving Ambrose Bierce(The author of thegreat story "Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"). All this shit justhappens around us and is forgotten. Whole tribes of indians existenin the bay area and disappeared before we ever recorded them(as didthe tribes that met Francis Drake, they even sacrificed shit to himand tortured themselves for him, he declined the compliments, and nowhis shipmates are the only recorded history of them from that time).

I was looking at some maps of lakes in california and found all kindsof weird names that had to have stories behind them(Killer's Coveamong them). That was only because I remember from childhood going toClearlake and hearing stories of people dieing in ponds because of thegases in the springs(and man did I see some weird ass creeks and covesin Clearlake).

I even found a resource for Bigfoot sightings in all these places Ihad been. Really funny half done reports from decades ago of hairygiant apes running down cliffs and making crazy sounds atnight(seriously, those accounts are like episodes of In Search Of,another of my favorite shows ever).

I don't know what I'm talking about. It's 4:30, I should beasleep(what I'm waking up for I don't know, lack of pussy cloud'smen's minds like Obi Wan Kenobi, there you happy, now you have anexample of the problem, I'm kidding). Keep drawing, keep living, keeploving. Something like that.

I want to dress as a Jack O' Lantern for halloween if not for anythingelse then to homage Halloween 3, a shitty movie, but it has thegreatest Jack O' Lantern seen ever. For real, find it on youtube,it's fucking messed up.

I drew the sketches while waiting in Chicago for three hours on the tarmac sleep deprived and hallucenigenic(didn't even try to spell tht right). The Batman I drew on vacation in Miami after sleeping a few days from the plane ordeal.

Films by Adrian Rivero

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